Car-coupling



L. MAGY.

OAR COUPLING.

(No Model.)

N0. 350,756. Patented Oct. 12, 1886.

ATTORNEYS N. PETERS. Phulo-hlhographer. Wmin wn, D4 6 UNITED STATESPATENT Ursula.

LEMUEL MACY, OF INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,756, dated October12, 1886.

Application filed July '22, 1886. Serial No. 209,744. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEMUEL Mixer, a citizen of the United States,residing at Independence, inthe county of Montgomery and State ofKansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCar-Couplings; and I do declare the followingto be a full, clear, andexact description of theinvention,such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and toletters or figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of this invention, and is afront view showing the levers not raised. with the levers raised.

The invention relates to improvements in car-couplings, the object beingto provide means to be used in connection with the ordinary style ofdraw-head or bumper, whereby the link and pin can each be raised and thecars coupled without the brakeman going between the same; and itconsists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, ashereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates thedraw-bar at the end of a car-platform, A. B is a draw -head or bumper,connected to the same, in the usual manner, by the band B, and backed bythe usual coiled spring, b.

c is the recess in the draw-head for the link 0, and d d the openings inthe roof and floor, respectively, of said recess for the pin D, providedwith the head (i E E are vertical bolsters secured to the drawbar A atequal distances on each side of the draw-head B.

FFare similarlevers having their inner ends flattened and spread, andprovided with the openings f f. The flattened end of one of the saidlevers rests upon that of the other, and the pin D passes through theopenings f and through the openings (2 (Zin the draw-bar, the head ofthe pin resting upon the flattened portion of the upper lever, F. Theopenings f are extended longitudinally, so as to readily engage the pinand prevent it binding in the openings fd d. The levers F are flattenedvertically at a point a little outward from their centers, and thenprovided with the longitudi- Fig. 2 is a top viewnal slots f, throughwhich pass the bolts or pins G, so that the levers are pivoted upon thelatter. The bolts G enter the faces of the bolsters E near the tops ofthe same, and stand out far enough therefrom to allow the levers to haveconsiderable lateral motion upon them, as well as the sliding motiondependent upon the slots f. The outer arms, f, of the levers extend farenough outward for the brakeman to depress them without entering betweenthe cars. By depressing either of said arms f 2 the pin D is lifted inthe draw-head sufiiciently to allow the link 0 to enter far enough inthe recess 0 to be engaged by the pin when the latter descends. Ifdesired, the inner ends of the levers F may be loosely coupled together,so that one cannot be raised independent of the other. 9 is a stop-barprojecting from the draw-bar and limiting the upward motion of thelovers F, so that the pin D cannot be drawn out of theopening d andentirely disengaged from the draw-head.

H H are levers flattened vertically at about their central parts, andprovided each with a longitudinal slot, 71, through which it is looselypivoted to the corresponding bolster, E, by the bolt T, which enters thebolster at the lower end thereof, the said end standing outward from thedraw-bar A. The levers H H, besides sliding on their pivots, have freelateral motion thereon. The outer arms of the said levers, like those ofthe levers F, are operated without entering between the ears. The innerarms of both levers H H bend outwardly in relation to the draw-bar A,and are pivoted together at their ends. They are thus bent to allow themto be readily passed in front of the draw-head, their normal positionbeing below and back of the face of the same. The inner arm, h, of thelever H is longer than that of the lever H, and has its end portionparallel to the face of the draw-head, the pivot-point being adjacent tothe opposite side of the latter. The upper edge of the said inner arm,h, has a notch, h, made upon it, adapted to receive and hold one side ofthe link 0, so that the latter, besides being lifted by the le vers H H,can also be moved laterally till in the desired position.

In. operation, when the link has been raised and properly moved to enterthe recess of the opposite draw-head, the lovers H H are allowed to dropand assume their normal position below the draw-head with which theycoact, and by means of the levers F the pin is al lowed to drop andengage the link.

Having described this invention, What I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent,

1. The combination, with the draw-bar, the draw-head,the bolstersE,secured to the drawbar, and the link 0, of the levers H H, pivotedtogether at their inner ends and provided with the slots 71, the notch7L2 on the lever H, and the bolts I, by which the levers H H are\Vitnesses:

P. V. HACKETT, G120. HOBSON.

